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Hey, I want to know is there is anyway we can convert selected object in to grayscale. Not all the artwork but only selected picture or object into grayscale?
Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to Greyscale.
Images need to be embedded.
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Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to Greyscale.
Images need to be embedded.
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Thanks for the answer that’s the thing which I was looking for.
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Good to hear that helped.
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Thank you very much sir Ton, that solved my problem. I've been trying to find the solution to convert colored images placed in illustrator but the menu "Convert to Grayscale" under Edit Colors was grayed out, until i found your suggestion that the colored image/s need to be embedded.
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It can also be done non destructive without embedding, by adding black Fill above the contents, applying an Outline object to the fill and use Saturation for Opacity.
 
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Is that Mustache, Ton?
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No, this is Nozem, Jacob.
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I hope you still have both, or more, Ton.
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No they were old and are gone. The cat we have now (Brummie) is 15 1/2 years old.
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I am beginning to wonder how old you find old, Ton.
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15 for a cat
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I agree, Ton; our oldest was Sarah, sixteen years and a half; her mother Sheba was second with fifteen
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Once you've turned something into grayscale via the Edit Colors method, is there a way to recover those color settings? Asking for a student of mine...
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No, you can't recover the original. Unkless you have a backup copy of the file.
Or maybe you saved it as a Cloud file and there are versions.
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Once saved it is permanent in the Illustrator file, but it can be replaced with the original.
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Or you can apply Effect > Rasterize and choose greyscale.
The advantage is that it is an effect and can be changed or turned off.
The disadvantage is that your vectors will behave like an image.
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Haziq,
If you wish to retain the original coloured object/image, remember to keep the original as backup and work with a copy (usually recommended before destroying artwork).
Or there is a silly way to work reversibly with the original whether vector object or raster image, and the latter can be linked to keep the file size down.
And any effect way, as the one suggested by Ton, is always reversible.
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Yes you can. An image placed on illustrator's artboard whether in cmyk or rgb mode can be both converted to gray scale, provided you embed those images after you placed them on the artboard. How will you do that?
After placing an image or picture on the artboard, click embed (see image below).
And from "Edit Menu", scroll down to Edit Colors, Convert to Grayscale.
On artwork or object, drawing created inside within illustrator's artboard, there's no need to embed, select the object or multiple objects drawing, just go to edit colors, convert to grayscale, that's it.